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The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. - Anonymous

Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable. - Ralph Johnson

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming. Feedback is the treatment. - Kent Beck

@AlecStapp The big joke is that both Japan and France offered their expertise to help us with the train in 2009, since they had built high speed trains in their country. We went with consultants instead.

Lmao so the new “ambitious plan” for California high speed rail is to take another 20 years to build it and then still not even connect SF and LA

@kampagnepapi Southwest Airlines is sending its loyal customers a message: We don’t want you. We want flyers of other airlines. Message received, I am done with you.

So not only Southwest will have added checked bag fees, no more low fares, seat selection, but now the travel credits have an expiration date. 😂 what incentive is there to still fly with them over other airlines now?

Startup time for Zed (left) vs. VS Code (right) VS Code takes seconds, Zed takes frames 😓

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then start on the first one. -- Mark Twain

If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likable person. -- Alan Cooper

It can be better to copy a little code than to pull in a big library for one function. Dependency hygiene trumps code reuse. -- Rob Pyke

Fix the cause, not the symptom. -- Steve Maguire

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde

There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary hack. -- Kyle Simpson

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

Repetition is the root of all software evil. -- Martin Fowler

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. -- Donald Knuth

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